Quotes by Conventions Technically you would only need one time traveler convention. Dorothy Gambrell conventionstime-travelneeds Convention, so often a mask for injustice. Edith Hamilton conventionsmaskinjustice Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. Eleanora Duse conventionstraditionart Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger? Elizabeth Bowen conventionsstronger An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. Ethel Mumford conventionsexplanationpounds What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. Eugene Delacroix conventionssovereignbeauty The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed. George Washington conventionspapertogether You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Gustav Mahler renounceconventionsvanity In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a Gilbert K. Chesterton pessimismconventionsexercise Conventions are often more cruel than the law. Honore de Balzac conventionslaw We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. Ilka Chase conventionshypocrisysex I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. Hunter S. Thompson conventionscoldrevolutionary The calendar? A mere convention. Irina Ratushinskaya conventionscalendarstime We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. Irving Babbitt conventionsromantic-loveleader What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context. Jacques Derrida conventionsobjectivitybelieve Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Jacques Barzun conventionsequalitysublime A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control. James Farley riggedconventionsmen You don't have to follow anybody's conventions. James Frey conventions It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. James Madison constitutional-conventionconventionswant Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation. Jane Byrne conventionstransportationchicago«123456»
